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Actuate’s Newest Release of BIRT Analytics Adds Key Advanced Predictive Analytics for Business Analysts

Business Wire (Tue, 7:00AM)
Actuate Joins Panel Showcasing Successful Big Data Deployments Along With Nemertes, Ascent Ventures, McKinsey & Company at E2 Conf on June 19th in Boston, Massachusetts

Business Wire (Jun 10, 2013)
Actuate’s Jeff Morris to be Interviewed by The Pulse Network on How Developers Use Open Source BIRT and ActuateOne, in a Webinar on June 13th at 2:00 p.m. EDT

Business Wire (Jun 4, 2013)
Actuate’s Xenos Group to Exhibit with the American Foundation for the Blind at the American Bankers Association Regulatory Compliance Conference June 9-12, 2013

Business Wire (Jun 4, 2013)
Actuate’s Xenos Group Joins the PDF Association, Reaffirming its Position as a Leader in Customer Communications

Business Wire (May 29, 2013)
Actuate’s Jeff Morris to Moderate Big Data Panel at Government Technology Research Alliance (GTRA) Council Meeting on Sunday, June 2nd, 2013

Business Wire (May 29, 2013)
Actuate’s BIRT-based Solutions for Big Data Business Analytics Beat All Other Major Vendors in Dresner’s 2013 Wisdom of Crowds Survey

Business Wire (May 28, 2013)
Actuate and YASH Technologies Launch Connector for SAP R/3 to Provide Easy Integration of Big Data with BIRT and ActuateOne

Business Wire (May 7, 2013)
Actuate and SaskTel Win CIO and IT Leadership Award in the Eighth Annual Ventana Research Business Technology Leadership Awards

Business Wire (May 6, 2013)
Actuate to Present at JMP Securities 12th Annual Research Conference

Business Wire (May 2, 2013)
Actuate Integrates ActuateOne BI Platform and BIRT onDemand SaaS with Amazon Redshift for Big Data Analytics in the Cloud

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Actuate Wins Sixth Consecutive Confirmit ACE (Achievement in Customer Excellence) Award

Business Wire (Apr 17, 2013)
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Business Wire (Apr 9, 2013)
Actuate Technical Experts to Present Four Technical Sessions on Big Data and BIRT at EclipseCon on March 25-28 in Boston

Business Wire (Mar 20, 2013)
Actuate and Bernard Marr’s Advanced Performance Institute Release Global Survey that Reveals Keys to Getting the Most from Business Performance Management

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Actuate Executives to Present “Turning Developer Passion into Advocacy” at Evans Developer Relations Conference on March 18th

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Company Description

Actuate Corporation (“we”, “Actuate” or the “Company”) was incorporated in November 1993 in the State of California and reincorporated in the State of Delaware in July 1998. Actuate provides software and services to develop and deploy Rich Information Applications. These Rich Information... More

Sector: Technology

Industry: Application Software

Country: United States

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Tuesday, April 30, 2:20 PM Informatica (INFA -3%), Splunk (SPLK -1.9%), and Qlik (QLIK -3%), 3 names hyped as analytics/big data plays, slump in response to Microstrategy's (MSTR -11.1%) big Q1 miss, which includes a 24% Y/Y drop in produce license revenue. As is its custom, the business intelligence software vendor gives no reason for its miss, nor does it provide guidance or an earnings call. It is, however, happy to note its buyback program ($455M remaining) has been extended to April 2018. Microstrategy's numbers are overshadowing solid results from rival Actuate (BIRT +6.2%); the company posted 16% Y/Y Q1 license rev. growth, compared with nearly flat total rev. growth. Comment! [Tech, On the Move, Earnings]
Monday, April 29, 4:50 PM Actuate (BIRT): Q1 EPS of $0.08 in-line. Revenue of $34.9M beats by $0.59M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News, Tech]
Friday, March 1, 2:12 PM Business intelligence software firms Microstrategy (MSTR +1%), Qlik (QLIK +2.8%), and Actuate (BIRT +5.3%) move higher in the wake of machine data analytics leader Splunk's (SPLK +6.2%) FQ4 beat and strong Q1 guidance. Splunk, now close to its post-IPO highs, boasted on its earnings call of adding 400+ customers in FQ4, up from 350+ in FQ3. $100K+ orders totaled 171, up from 125 in FQ3, and included a $20M deal. Management talked up the potential of the security compliance market (25%-30% of bookings), and said it now has 160 customers on its Storm cloud platform. Comment! [Tech, On the Move]
Friday, February 15, 2:00 PM Amazon (AMZN) has launched its Redshift data warehousing service for AWS, trademark aggressive pricing and all. Business intelligence software firms SAP, IBM, Microstrategy (MSTR +3.4% - up thanks to Qlik), and Actuate (BIRT +0.8%) are among the launch partners. Interestingly, so is Informatica (INFA +1.2%) - though Redshift represents competition for Informatica's data warehousing solutions, the company is offering a subscription-based Redshift connector. Informatica and Teradata (TDC +0.2%) sold off when Redshift was first announced. Comment! [Tech]
Thursday, February 14, 5:06 PM Middleware/analytics software provider Tibco (TIBX) +1.6% AH in response to business intelligence software firm Qlik's Q4 beat and strong 2013 guidance. Both companies have been hyped on occassion as big data plays. Other names that could move higher include Qlik rivals Microstrategy (MSTR) and Actuate (BIRT), data warehousing vendors Informatica (INFA) and Teradata (TDC), and machine data software king Splunk (SPLK). Comment! [Tech, On the Move]
Monday, February 4, 4:46 PM Actuate (BIRT): Q4 EPS of $0.09 in-line. Revenue of $35.7M beats by $1.67M. Shares +3.4% AH. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News, Tech, On the Move]
Thursday, January 24, 6:14 PM Informatica (INFA) reportedly guides on its Q4 call for Q1 revenue of ~$201M and EPS of $0.29-$0.32. Shares +8.2% AH, paring some of the gains they saw on news of a huge Q4 beat, but still up strongly. Deferred revenue reached $250.8M in Q4, up from $226.9M in Q3 and $214.6M in Q4 '11. Some other big data/analytics plays, such as SPLK, TIBX, BIRT, QLIK, TDC, and MSTR, could rally tomorrow. Comment! [Tech, Earnings, On the Move]
Thursday, November 1, 2012, 9:24 AM More on Teradata's Q3: The company now expects 2012 EPS of $2.34-$2.44, and revenue growth of 12%-14%, below a consensus of $2.79 and 14.2%. Americas was soft, up just 2% Y/Y. EMEA +17%, Asia-Pac +14%. Deferred revenue balance -12% Q/Q to $382M. Three business intelligence software firms, whose products often work in tandem with Teradata's data warehousing systems, recently posted weak Q3 results. Fellow DW firm Informatica is also facing challenges. TDC -12.5%. (PR) Comment! [Tech, Earnings]
Wednesday, October 31, 2012, 12:09 PM Business intelligence software vendors continue to have a rough time: 5 days after Qlik (QLIK -0.5%) was clobbered thanks to an FQ3 miss, the same is happening to Microstrategy (MSTR -11.8%) and Actuate (BIRT -13.9%) following their Q3 misses (I, II). Actuate, which noted European sales are weak, has received a downgrade to Neutral from Roth. Are macro issues solely to blame for the misses, or is competition also a factor? SPLK -2.8%. TDC -1.1%. INFA -1.7%. Comment! [Tech, Earnings, On the Move]
Monday, October 29, 2012, 4:36 PM Actuate (BIRT): Q3 EPS of $0.08 misses by $0.03. Revenue of $32.2M (-5% Y/Y) misses by $2M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Tech]
Tuesday, October 23, 2012, 10:20 AM MicroStrategy (MSTR -9.5%) dives after announcing: 1) Vice-chairman Sanju Bansal is being replaced as COO by services chief Bob Watts. 2) CTO Jeffrey Bedell has been replaced by engineering VP Peng Xiao. 3) Paul Zolfaghari, formerly COO at startup ParAccel, has been named President, along with legal chief Jonathan Klein. BMO is downgrading to Market Perform: it's unhappy with the COO change, and believes it could be a response to poor results. It also thinks the BI software market is slowing down - bad news for rivals QLIK and BIRT. Comment! [Tech, On the Move, Quick Ideas]
Thursday, September 27, 2012, 12:42 PM FBN shows its love of big data plays, launching coverage on Tibco (TIBX +2%), Splunk (SPLK +4.1%), Informatica (INFA +2.4%), and Actuate (BIRT +8%) at Outperform. FBN likes Tibco's 30%+ license bookings growth, and talks up the potential of its Spotfire big data analytics platform (20% of revenue). Checks indicate Spotfire is more enterprise-ready than rival solutions from QLIK and Tableau, and that Tibco's co-marketing efforts are paying off. (also) Comment! [Tech, On the Move, Quick Ideas]
Thursday, August 2, 2012, 5:17 PM Actuate (BIRT): Q2 EPS of $0.12 misses by $0.01. Revenue of $36.2M (+7.4% Y/Y) in-line. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Tech]
Thursday, May 3, 2012, 4:45 PM Actuate (BIRT): Q1 EPS of $0.11 in-line. Revenue of $34.8M (+8.4% Y/Y) in-line. (PR) 1 Comment [Earnings, Tech]
Monday, January 30, 2012, 4:48 PM Actuate (BIRT): Q4 EPS of $0.15 in-line. Revenue of $35.3M (+9.3% Y/Y) in-line. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Tech]
Monday, August 22, 2011, 4:05 PM Actuate (BIRT +7%) holds on to gains after being upgraded to overweight at First Analysis. The firm says the company is benefiting from its global business exposure, particularly in India, where 40% of developers are currently using or planning to use the company's technology over the next 12 months. Comment! [On the Move, Tech]

Dr. Kris
Short Notice #2: Actuate (BIRT) channeling between between $4 & $6. Stock heading back down, testing $5 level. Short only; no options.
2/4/11
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Dr. Kris
Channeling: BIRT up 8% today, nearing $6 upper resistance. Stock in looong cycles between $4/$6 since 5/09. No options.
12/21/10
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AlphaLoboTrading
BIRT - attempting breakout higher here, look for break above 5.04 to enter longs for move higher to target price of 6.00
1/29/10
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AlphaLoboTrading
BIRT - look for break above 5.02 to enter longs, cup and handle formation, target 6.25
1/20/10
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